Announcing the Mary Ballard Poetry Prize Semi Finalists

We are excited to narrow our field of contenders for the contest to these semi-finalists.

Semi-finalists, keep your simultaneous submissions active, but let us know immediately if you need to withdraw. Three finalists will be selected in September, and we need to be certain these three poets are available to accept their publishing contract upon winning.

Congratulations, poets.

Ajamu Abdullah ~ ProtoStar

Alan D. Harris ~ Fall Ball and other late inning storylines

alex stolis ~ Postcards from the Knife Thrower

Alice Stinetorf ~ Within Our Vagrant Flesh

Alina Stefanescu ~ i watch dishes

B Deep ~ In The Belly Of A Star

Becca Lamarre ~ You Are The Pestle

Bud R. Berkich ~ Halley Street Revisited

Cari Oleskewicz ~ You'll Find Me on the Highway

Carol Dorf ~ The Theory Headed Dragon

Carolyn Martin ~ Say the Words

Cherise Wyneken ~ White Cranes

Clara Freeman ~ A Southern Woman's Confessional - Poems from the soul

Courtney Claire Taylor ~ The Moon for Our Garden

David Butler ~ The Dogfish
David Allen Sullivan ~ Take Wing

Diana Woodcock ~ Into Vastness and Freedom

Dot Dannenberg ~ The Wild Eye

Elise Hempel ~ Older Man

Fernando Valdivia ~ Seam Allowances

Janne Karlsson ~ Cooking for the Void

Judith Waller Carroll ~ Ordinary Beauty

Kirby Wright ~ At the Artist Colony

Laura Lee Perkins ~ Soul Music

Lukata Martin ~ Imperfect Expressions of Perfect Concerns

Magdalena Ball ~ Most of Everything is Nothing

Margaret Rozga ~ Measure of Peace

Marilyn Zelke-Windau ~ Woof Worthy

Martin Willitts Jr ~ Snowy Day

Mary Buchinger ~ Vagrancies

Mary Kipps ~ The Art of Kissing Softly

Michelle Chen ~ A Thousand Natural Shocks

Nathanael Cook ~ From the Happy Stones of the Living

Nick Hilbourn ~ Pacha

Nolo Segundo ~ The Enormity of Existence

Patti Sullivan ~ Top Forty

Paul David Adkins ~ Baghdad Menagerie

Rhiannon Thorne ~ Stillbirth

Rob Stephens ~ The Art of Fugue

Sandra Campbell ~ Breaking Through

Sarah Richards ~ Complexities, of Mind and Body

Shari Caplan ~ Advice from a Siren

Shauna Osborn ~ Indra's Net
Sylvia Telfer ~ Pandora's Boxes - Fragile

Tinasha LaRayé ~ skin, of the chocolate complexion